Neighbour's CCTV Pointing to My House - What Else Can I do?

TheMindsetTraveller on 08/03/2022 - 10:43

Dear OzBargainners,

Here is yet another neighbour from [insert your choice a terrible word here] situation.

Our neighbour from [insert your choice of a terrible word here] has installed fixed cameras that, I feel, points onto my property where they can see through my large windows and into my living areas.

The idea of having a chat with this neighbour is unlikely to reach any meaningful or workable result so,

A quick google of this situation suggests that there are very few legal remedies, other than walking around the house nude for the said neighbour to see and forcing the neighbour to point their cameras away from my property.

Rather than my active crusade to go nude, I am thinking of a 24/7 passive protest by plastering my wall with large offensive (yet lawful) posters etc so they can see it all the time. Nobody else in the neighbourhood is able to see my windows unless they climb into my property or if they are flying a drone overhead and zooming in - so the public is definitely safe from any visual pollution that I cause.

If the neighbour complains, it is only proof that this person is using the CCTV to surveillance my property.

Apart from the above. Any other things I could do to annoy the neighbour's video footage of my property and me? :D

Home & Garden Security Camera

Comments

  • IWoNdEr on 09/03/2022 - 23:19

    Get a DJI drone and fly around that camera everyday.
    Get a big one too if you want the shock and awe effect.

  • GourmetFoodie on 09/03/2022 - 23:25

    Taller fence plus privacy screening/trellis and tall trees ???

  • TransportPosters on 09/03/2022 - 23:50
    +1

    Maybe install a huge floodlight at the front of your house shining out at their windows and keep it on at night. If they start a conversation just say you got concerned after seeing their cameras and wanted to do your bit to keep up security.

  • Mysterious on 10/03/2022 - 02:01

    You can try talking to the neighbours. Voice your concern and ask if they can take it down. That should be your starting point.

  • dr on 10/03/2022 - 08:08

    Are you sure that purpose of neighbor's CCTV camera(s) is to look into your backyard/house and invade your privacy? Do the cameras cover (part of) their property, do they have reasonably legitimate reason to install camera where they installed it (e.g. monitoring pool, or access to their shed, backyard etc…)

  • core101 on 10/03/2022 - 08:52

    You could strut around your backyard naked, and occasionally pickup that proverbial penny with your back towards the camera, or not worry. Most normal people with camera system, don't have time to be watching the cameras, and don't have a dedicated large screen TV monitor in the kitchen to help watch cameras with. A privacy mask may be used to ignore your yard anyway. The recordings may be looked at, only after a notable incident has occurred, and old recordings are overwritten with time.

  • [Deactivated] on 10/03/2022 - 08:52
    +1

    The answer is always bamboo.

    Buy gracillis, grows straight up, and up to 3 stories high.
    Either put it in the ground or get a larger planter box.

    • RocketSwitch on 10/03/2022 - 10:13

      Good one, planting something is great.

    • Baysew on 10/03/2022 - 13:38

      Will also get into neighbours property and block from there as well.

      • [Deactivated] on 10/03/2022 - 14:07

        Gracillis is clumping. It won't go under a fence if you partition it well :).

        It's a good way to passively deal with nosy neighbours!

  • RocketSwitch on 10/03/2022 - 10:12

    My neighbours all have cameras, but they don't really point to my backyard, one is facing it, but is on the far side of their property and the other faces straight ahead. I have since planted a tree there that has covered it, so can't see into my living room and the other, it made me close up the outdoor area which I needed to do, anyway. Now, problem solved.

  • Dack Smith on 10/03/2022 - 13:20
    -1

    Have you heard of the AX50 from Accuracy International?

    The .50 AP round will pretty much get rid of the camera and also stop that area from being used for further camera placements.

    If you’re really worried and concerned that would be the ideal way to stop nosy cameras.

  • foursaken on 10/03/2022 - 14:19
    +1

    So many people, so few clues. Use IR LED's, not LASERs or spotlights.

    • jason101 on 11/03/2022 - 22:47

      Yes this, I accidentally had 1 cameras with ir’s pointed at another one in my warehouse at night it was a Star Wars battle between them on screen, all glare, white out and no image

  • Yimmy on 10/03/2022 - 14:58

    Maybe just wander around and have a chat with them ? They could also just show you the live feed, to see what They can see. As a cctv owner, I don’t look at them, at all, unless there is an issue.

    And my neighbours asked for my footage recently to help them and the police solve a theft..

  • KitchenSink on 10/03/2022 - 16:34
    +1

    We grew out bushes so high that it covers their camera. They can't touch our bushes

  • Pyrocentric on 10/03/2022 - 18:53
    +1

    You just got free CCTV - isn't that a bargain?

  • stoltzjf on 10/03/2022 - 20:04
    -2

    And they day will come when someone broke into your property and you can go to him with an open heart and ask for assistance in the footage…. just saying…..not always nessasary to be a doos.

  • Eeples on 10/03/2022 - 20:07
    -1

    The cameras may be the result of years of disputes with your neighbour. So you probably need to take some responsibility.
    I suppose you could camera-up too.

    I suggest you do actually camera-up and then if questioned by your neighbour state earnestly that you are simply watching out for his property.
    (A nice thing for you to do).

  • TheMindsetTraveller on 11/03/2022 - 01:14
    +2

    Anyway, to just bring this thread to a finality, thank you for your posts and replies. Some good perspectives out there and some different ones to what I would consider but thanks anyway. Happy for this thread to be closed as there is not much more usefulness to me / anyone moving forward.

  • Motek Benzona on 11/03/2022 - 09:49

    Pointing to the house (wall roof inside the boundry and garden) = ok
    Pointing directly into rooms/windows = very not ok

    Its an offence for the latter. It is that simple. I have been through it (the videoed end not the cameraman)
    WIll the police act? That is a seperate question……

  • JoBevo on 11/03/2022 - 09:52

    Why not just ask your neighbour what the camera is for and if he can move away so you are more comfortable about it.

  • Drew42 on 11/03/2022 - 09:56
    +1

    Curtains, my friend. I can't believe no-one has said this.

  • ozlab on 11/03/2022 - 13:32
    +1

    My neighbor is doing the same. I was about to install a security camera but I canceled it because now I got free one.

  • tastybaklava on 11/03/2022 - 22:06
    +1

    What you need is an infrared spotlight. People use them to assist their CCTV cameras to see at night when the built in IR leds aren't powerful enough or have enough reach.

    One pointed directly at his camera will be near invisible to the human eye but will completely blow out the image to be completely white as if someone was shining a torch straight in your face. It should completely disable that camera's ability to see through your window if placed correctly.

    You should be able to pick one up off eBay with sufficient power for about $20-$50.

  • justanotherusername on 06/04/2023 - 16:07
    +1

    We have been dealing with this issue for a decade now. I believe this neighbour is traumatised by their own past as you can search their name on google and a range of articles come up where they sued a doctor for almost $400, 000.00, and had a very successful outcome. I feel this neighbour is using the knowledge of the outcome to sue my Mother whom is in her sixties, and defenceless. This event occurred when my sibling and I would have friends over in our late teens (as you do), and sometimes the noise from the music playing would become a bit excessive for this neighbour. They began by making numerous noise complaints to the police whom always paid a visit and politely told us to ensure we are monitoring the noise at a reasonable level, but then they started to make various malicious complaints, installing two cameras in their back property (as we are situated down a driveway behind their house and another house, but we do not share the driveway with these two residents). One of these cameras we managed to block out by legally building a higher fence which aggravated the resident because this camera was pointed directly at the front of our house (again.. we are situated down a driveway, and have been residents in this home longer than this resident). The other camera they have situated under their aircon on the roof. It clearly does not monitor their backyard, but our home and the rental next door. Unfortunately police have done nothing about it over the 10 years, and we have been to court numerous times as the neighbour has subpoena my Mother numerous times. Every court occasion the neighbour's case was dismissed, but the camera under the aircon on the roof still remains in place, and recently they have upgraded the cameras. In addition, the neighbour has installed excessive lighting on their front porch to clearly capture any event. I personally do not mind the installation of excessive lighting because on a positive note, I feel there has been less criminal activity on our street as a result. This neighbour is now contesting local laws to try and get my Mother removed from the community, and a job she has held in the community for over 15 years. This neighbour has also gone to extreme lengths to identify a business listed at our address, but when we tried searching ASICS and ABN lookup we could not locate the information of the business leaving us to question, how did this neighbour retrieve confidential information?

    Thank you for reading my story, and I look forward to reading any vital information you may have that may help us in our decade of distress.

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